> The lawyers said, for example, that the law covered
> the "money laundering of funds" such as coins or
> currency and that the money transfers cited in the
> indictment involved "checks" that were not "funds."
I'm sure the WaPo led with this defense, because on its
face, it sounds laughably like Clintonian parsing.
But I'm wondering if the TX law was specifically aimed
at cash, like the IRS Form 8300 is (for transactions
of $10K or more).
I wondered about that point too. But money laundering is afterall taking dirty cash from a criminal criminal and turning it into clean money. Since there was no criminal activity, money laudering is not what was going on.